Okay, enough foolishness. Back to work.

Update: This post was an April Fool’s joke as well. I was hoping to catch people off-guard by doing a late-night post after all the other pranks were out there. Clicking on the video link just gets you rickrolled in a creative way.

To make up for playing pranks today, I recorded a brief movie about some of the signals that Google uses to rank web pages. We publicly say that Google uses over 200 different signals in our ranking algorithms, but we don’t always talk about them much. If you’re interested to hear more about the signals that Google uses, here’s the recording.

And I apologize for all the April Fool’s jokes — you just have to give yourself one day a year to have fun, right? 🙂

Ankit, that’s a pretty simple captcha. Are you worried that your captcha is too simple, so spammers will be able to solve it? Or are you mainly just trying to raise the bar a tiny amount so that bots won’t guess it?

After trying to setup google apps for my company email 3 times and all three times finding it unusable for one reason or another I wouldn’t be surprised if google uses the muppets for it’s inspiration …. a bit nasty but unfortunately true.

It’s not funny,
I don’t like this April’s fool crap.
We do a short time a day to get informed and I’m not losing it with pranks!
So Matt, you’ve promised an instructive video about Google and didn’t delivered so I’m linking to a video of Seth Godin on Google http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B62p-dEfUZM for those who are tired of this Never gonna give you up.
regards
Lucio

So, you’re never gunna give up the the signals that Google uses to rank web pages. Right? Cool. My biggest thing is: are not SEOs helping to make the SEs better with keyword targeting? I think as SEOs, those of us who don’t know the Google engine signals for rank should be given a break and told some secrets. Couldn’t you play an April fools joke on Google next year and really give out some rank signals? If no, how about if there was some kind of fiduciary agreement with SEOs outside of Google? We could create a contract that says if these secrets were ever made public, the SEO who signed the contract would have to pay a large penalty.